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I see Dangelo’s music being discussed every day on here, but never see anything about his comeback story. One of the strongest of all time... Guess it’s time for a thread...
Gonna breeze past Brown Sugar (my favorite album of his) to the release of Voodoo, as this is where it gets interesting, and like I said, I wanna focus on his story, not the music rn... That Untitled Video... Turned a relatively shy and humble introvert into a sex symbol.
Album drops, Untitled video drops, Voodoo tour begins. D’Angelo w/ a live band, The Soultronics. Ft. ?uestlove & Anthony Hamilton 
Crowds were mixed with people who loved the music and people who wanted to see the young superstar in person. Shirtless, like in that damn video..
Crowds were mixed with people who loved the music and people who wanted to see the young superstar in person. Shirtless, like in that damn video..
Songs were being interrupted by women who wanted to cat call and scream for him to take his clothes off.. They wanted Untitled Video D’Angelo, not the musician.
There was also the fact that, like many legends before him, he struggled with performing Secular music, having grown up singing in the Church.. Marvin Gaye fans will find this a familiar sentiment. Shortly after tour ended, he lost one of his best friends, Fred Jordan, to suicide
... So we got the pressure from the ppl on tour that only saw him as a piece of meat, the death of a best friend, and pressure by his record label to make another album and do it all over again. D turned to Alcohol. He was hype to make another album, but wanted to do it his way
He looked up to Prince, and how versatile he was with the Instruments. He wanted to play all the instruments on his next album. Make something different from Voodoo and Brown Sugar. This was time consuming though, and Virgin cut funding..
Now it gets dark... First came the arrests, the infamous mugshot(s), the addictions.. He tried to go to rehab a few times, it just didn’t work out. Then the September 2005 car wreck. Flipped his hummer, was ejected and really f*cked himself up.
Broke all his ribs on one side. Split from the label, split from his manager, his girlfriend left him. Our guy was down bad. Down but not OUT.
After about 10 years of being out of the limelight, he got with The Vanguard, (Kendra Foster, Russell Elevado, and Ben Kane, and put out Black Messiah. Elevado engineered some do the songs on Brown Sugar. They recorded that album over 4 years. Not my fav, but still a masterpiece.
I left out ALOT here. Whole threads could be made on his contributions to Neo Soul, his influence on his peers, Maxwell, Erykah Badu, Common, Dilla, etc.., the Influence of the Soulquarians, the impact of his first two albums etc etc etc and on and on and on.. Thx for reading 
